Re: bios woes

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:46:35 -0400
John Chambers <[email protected]> wrote:

: Most motherboards require that you remove the battery before
: shorting the pins to erase cmos memory.  (or in newer
: motherboards, remove the short)
: Also, a utility from the eighties, cmoser11, had the capability of
: modifying settings, bypassing password. But you'll need a
: DOS(like) disk to boot from.

I was thinking along similar lines at one point, but I found
cmosdump and cmospwd in c source, and following Tom's advice, was
able to compile the code and run them after booting with Tom's disk.
Problem solved. 

	Thanks for the reply though,
	bill